Nov 5, 2022; San Francisco, California, USA; Followers react throughout the League of Legends World Championships between T1 and DRX at Chase Middle. Obligatory Credit score: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports activities Natus Vincere and Group Vitality received their respective teams on the Intel Excessive Masters Cologne occasion on Tuesday in Germany, which lets them leap straight to the playoff semifinals.
Natus Vincere rallied to beat SAW 2-1 within the Group A upper-bracket ultimate, and Vitality swept MOUZ 2-0 within the Group B ultimate.
NaVi and Vitality shall be joined by SAW, MOUZ, G2 Esports and FaZe Clan within the playoff stage after G2 and FaZe Clan clinched third place of their teams Tuesday. All different groups have been eradicated.
Sixteen groups started play within the double-elimination play-in stage of the $1 million Counter-Strike: International Offensive match.
The group stage ran Saturday by means of Tuesday and featured two double-elimination teams of eight. The group winners moved on to the playoff semifinals. The group runners-up superior to the playoff quarterfinals as excessive seeds, and the third-place groups superior to the playoff quarterfinals as low seeds.
The one-elimination playoffs will run this Friday by means of Sunday. All match matches are best-of-three except for the grand ultimate, which shall be best-of-five. The champion earns berths within the IEM Katowice occasion and the BLAST Premier World Closing whereas additionally pocketing $400,000.
On Tuesday, SAW opened their match with a 13-9 win on Nuke, however NaVi turned the tide by working away 13-2 on Historical and 13-6 on Inferno. Ihor “w0nderful” Zhdanov of Ukraine led the profitable aspect with 52 kills on a plus-25 kills-to-deaths differential.
In Group B, Vitality took Mud II 13-6 earlier than eking out a 16-13 additional time win on Vertigo to complete off MOUZ. Shahar “flameZ” Shushan of Israel tallied 43 kills on a plus-12 Ok-D whereas Vitality teammate Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut of France had 38 kills on a plus-13.
The Group A lower-bracket ultimate noticed G2 Esports demolish paiN Gaming, profitable 13-6 on Nuke and 13-1 on Mirage for the sweep. Russian Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov had 31 kills and a plus-17 to tempo G2.
And in Group B’s lower-bracket ultimate, FaZe outlasted Group Liquid 2-1. FaZe opened with a 13-9 victory on Inferno earlier than Liquid answered 16-13 in additional time on Nuke. The ultimate map, Mirage, additionally wanted additional time, with FaZe incomes a 16-13 victory. David “frozen” Cernansky of Slovakia piled up 66 kills on a plus-15 for FaZe.
Earlier Tuesday, FaZe swept Group Falcons 2-0 and Liquid did the identical to Complexity Gaming to advance to the lower-bracket ultimate.
The match picks up Friday with the 2 quarterfinal matches:
–MOUZ vs. G2 Esports
–SAW vs. FaZe Clan
Intel Excessive Masters Cologne prize pool, with cash and BLAST Premier factors
1. $400,000, 3,000 factors
2. $180,000, 2,000 factors
3-4. $80,000, 1,200 factors
5-6. $40,000, 500 factors
7-8. $24,000, 300 factors — paiN Gaming, Group Liquid
9-12. $16,000, no factors — The MongolZ, Astralis, Group Falcons, Complexity Gaming
13-16. $10,000, no factors — 9z Group, Group Spirit, Virtus.professional, FURIA Esports
17-20. $4,500, no factors — BIG, HEROIC, MIBR, Everlasting Hearth
21-24. $2,500, no factors — ALTERNATE aTTaX, 3DMAX, Imperial Esports, FlyQuest
–Discipline Degree Media